00:00 : to begin with, we see (and hear) AAA fire in the sky, by dint of tracer rounds. I wondered why, given its all radar guided. My cousin (former Captain in

00:00 : to begin with, we see (and hear) AAA fire in the sky, by dint of tracer rounds. I wondered why, given its all radar guided. My cousin (former Captain in the UK army) tells me standard ammo boxing has one round in five being tracer. I can imagine it’s useful, as it helps inform other defenders you’re firing at something. 00:07 : then a single point of light rises up into the sky; this is a surface-to-air missile, I would guess shoulder-launched. It disappears when it comes into the cloud base (which is not particularly visible, as it is dark). Missiles seem surprisingly slow, but we are looking here at something covering a couple of kilometres in a couple of seconds. I’ve seen these things myself; the CCD blurs out their exhaust a little. To the eye, they’re sharp points of light. 00:07 : while the missile is rising, there’s an quick single explosion in the sky over to the right, below the datestamp. This I think from its size and shape is a drone being blown up. 00:15 : a very quick explosion a bit to the right of the top center - I suspect this is the missile from 00:07 finding its mark. I suspect what you or I would have seen, had we been there, with the human eye, would have been somewhat different to what the CCD captures; I think that explosion was above the cloud base, and so we would have seen a white flash lighting up the clouds from above. I suspect the CCD doesn’t pick up such a sky-wide flash of light very well, but it does pick up the core of the explosion, even through the clouds. 00:16 : AAA fire begins again, from the left. [full text on blog post; truncated here as 4k character limit]